Saw-handle



(No Model.)

B. H. TEN EYGK.

\ l SAW HANDLE. No. 341,703. Patented M avy11v, 1886.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BENJAMIN H. TENv EYGK, OF EMPORIUM, PENNSYLVANIA.

SAW-HANDLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 341,703, dated May 11, 1886.

Application filed October 10, 1885.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN H. TEN EYCK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Emporium, in the county of Cameron and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Saw -Handles; and I hereby declare the following to be a full and clear description thereof.

rlhis invention has for its object the securing of a removable handle to a saw-blade, more particularly to the form of saw known as cross-cut. The handle has a metallic socket or clamping part, the lower or outer part of which is slotted for the insertion therein of the saw-blade, and the other end is inserted into a hole or housing` in the handle, in

which it is secured by a clamping-nut.

The invention will be readily understood by reference to the accompanying drawings, of which Figure lis an elevation of my improved handle with a saw blade attached thereto. Fig. 2 is a central sectional elevation of the handle part taken by itself. Fig. 3 is an elevation of the clamping-bar in which the saw is secured. 1 Fig. 4 is an elevation of the clamp'- ing-nut by which the said clamping-bar is secured to the handle. Fig. 5 is a bottom plan of the clamping-nut.

The end of the saw blade A is inserted through an aperture, b, formed for it in the clamping-bar B, and then the said clampingbar is placed in the central longitudinal hole or housing, c, prepared for it in the handle C, and it is secured therein by the assembling nut or screw D, so as to firmly hold the said parts A B C together, yet in such a manner that they may be easily separated by simply unscrewing the coupling-nut D. The lower end of the handle C is surrounded and finished by a metallic ferrule, C', which extends somewhat beyond that end of the said handle, and thereby forms a chalnbered recess,which is screw-threaded on the inside to receive the exterior threads, d, of the nut D. The said nut is also providedwith an aperture, d', in its central part, in which it receives the shank of the clamping-bar B. The nut D also has an operating flange or surface, d2, which projects below the ferrule C when the parts are assembled together, so that it may be grasped by the thumb and fingers, and thereby be screwed into place.

The bottom face of the clamping-nut D has transverse radial grooves di, into any one of Serial No. 179,487. (No model.)

which that chances to be in the proper position when the nut is screwed up the top edge of the saw-blade fits, as shown in Fig. 1,.and thereby the parts are held locked together.

`In using this handle the saw-blade is rst properly inserted in its slot b in the clamping-bar, which is then inserted in its hole in the handle, the nut having been iirst put on the said clamping-bar in a proper position for subsequent operations, and then the nut is screwed intothe ferrule C', and at the same time the screw-threads b of the upper end of the clamping-bar B engage with and screw into the nut D', which is embedded in the handle C at or near the top end of the ferrule C', and which is held in place by the washerpiece c', as shown in Fig. 2. YVhen the top edge of the saw blade is engaged in any of the notches or slots d of the nut D, the said nut is thereby prevented from rotating independently of the saw-blade, and consequently the assembling-nut D can then be most readily screwed up by turning the handle G, and by doing this-'z'. e., by rotating the handle C, which has the nut D fixed in it-the shank of the rod or bar B is thereby screwed up into the handle and the nut D into its socket-piece, thereby firmly locking the parts together.

Having thus described my invention,wh at I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A crosscut-saw handle chambered at its bottom end to receive a clamping-nut centrally in the handle, in which the said clamping-nut vis held by a securing-washer pressed tightly into the bottom part of the nut-recess and up against the nut, so as to hold the nut securely therein in its place, a clamping-bar IOO 

